Uploaded on 2016-10-14 by Davide Maria Zema

PEOPLE Milan represents the finance capital of Italy. Due to this reason, many companies establish here their offices with big impacts into the environment stocks and flows. Stock grows for the construction of new building and relative infrastructure; flows are, in addition, upset by these operations and every year the amount of people coming, working and leaving the city is growing. I do not think we need a solution but only a balance to ensure a constant stocks and flows to the city. FOOD Milan is a metropolitan area, the most important of the Country. Food is one of the key-elements in the urban metabolism and due to the political and physical location of the city, Milan need to import almost every goods. In this case, I see disequilibrium between stocks and flows because there is any kind of food stock in the city. Markets are daily filled again. This means the stocks are constantly absent. In the future, only with an air quality improvements, we could be able to establish urban vegetable gardens reaching the present absent balance between stocks and flows. WASTE Due to the multitude functions and complexity situation of Milan, waste is a considerable problem. Analysing it through stock and flows I believe there are several problems to be solved. The waste is currently taken and brought outside the city to be managed. In the future I would like to see a city metabolism able to transform waste inside the city territory: this way, the benefits will have a huge effect in the urban system because the waste dissipation needs a significant infrastructure.